Afternoon Red Sox Delight – 6/16

Clay Buchholz (L), David Price (R)

After splitting the first two games, the Boston Red Sox look to take the rubber game of a three-game set with the Tampa Bay Rays tonight at Tropicana Field.

Tonight’s first pitch is scheduled for 7:10 p.m. and you can watch the game on NESN in the Red Sox television market. If you live in the Rays television market, you can catch the game on Sun Sports. If you don’t live in either market you’re in luck as well as the MLB Network will be televising the game. And if you can’t catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to the game on the 2011 Red Sox Radio Network.

Clay Buchholz, who ended his four-game no decision streak with a win his last time out, takes toes the slab for the 14th time this season. In his previous 13 starts, Buchholz is 5-3 with a 3.59 ERA. He has not faced the Rays in 2011 and was 1-1 with a 0.98 ERA (2 ER/18.1 IP) in three starts against them last year. He’s made seven career starts against the Rays and is 3-2 with a 1.81 ERA. Four of those starts have come at the Trop where he is 2-1 with a 2.30 ERA.

David Price makes his 15th start of 2011 for skipper Joe Maddon. In his previous 14 starts, Price is 7-5 with a 3.51 ERA. He picked up a win in his only start against the Red Sox back on April 12th when he allowed two runs in 7.2 innings. He’s made six career starts against the Red Sox and is 4-2 with a 3.18 ERA.

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Here are tonight’s lineups:

40-27		36-32
1. Darnell McDonald	CF	1. Johnny Damon	DH
2. Dustin Pedroia	2B	2. Ben Zobrist	2B
3. Adrian Gonzalez	1B	3. Matt Joyce	RF
4. Kevin Youkilis	3B	4. Evan Longoria	3B
5. David Ortiz	DH	5. Casey Kotchman	1B
6. Jed Lowrie	SS	6. B.J. Upton	CF
7. Carl Crawford	LF	7. John Jaso	C
8.Mike Cameron	RF	8. Sam Fuld	LF
9. Jarrod Saltalamacchia	C	9. Reid Brignac	SS
Clay Buchholz	SP	David Price	SP